The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-03-05

Renorts of the earthquake disaster
in Italy and Southern France continue
to arrive. The totsi number OF deaths
reported up to ths present time is
abo it 1900. Shocks were felt on the
24tn at Parma, Turin and Cosenza.
Undulations of the earth were noticed
at Catania in Sicily at the foot of
Mount Etna. The director of the Turin
observatory telegraphs that the seis-
mic instruments are quiescent and that
no further disturbance is feared. In
the towns OF the Genoese Riviera more
than l 800 persons were killed. At
the village of Bajardo, situated at
the top OF a hill, g. number OF the in.
habitanSs took refuge in a church
when toe shocks were first felt. A
subsequent and greater shock de-
molished the church, and 800 of the
people who were in it were killed. At
Nice the panic has not yet. subsided.
Fugitives are fleeing in every direction.
The people are afraid to re-enter their
houses and hotels, and in the evening
the heights back of the city were
crowded with refugees. Two thousand
English, American and Russian
visitors were camped out during the
night on the elevated ground. Six
thousand persons have left the city
and started for Paris. The son of Al
bert n. Hathaway, the American con-
sui at Nice, was seriously injured. Six
ty houses are tottering and ready to
fall from the shatterings inflicted by
the earthquake. Many others
are much damaged, and in most resi-
dences more or less OF the furnishings
are damaged. Two slight shocks OF
earthquake were felt on the Oath, at
Nice and Cannes, but there was no in
i1ry. The first disturbances killed
two persons and injured ten at
Nice; killed four and injured
two at Bar; killed two and in
iured twelve at Bollene. At Chateau
Neuf many were injured; at Savona
two houses fell, killing nine persons
and injuring fifteen. The whole popu-
lation of Savona are bivouacked
about the town. Monte Carlo is filled
with thousands of refugees from
Cannes, Nice, Mentone and San Reno.
1t is difficult to find shelter for the
greater number Of people, and
many of them were compelled to
camp out. Gaming has been sus-
pended, and band is playing on the
terrace for the purpose OF restoring
confidence to the frightened people.
1t is reported that at Bussana, .
village of 500 inhabitants, successive
shocks leveled nearly every house.
One-third of the people are said to
have been buried in the ruins, and
there is no hope of rescuing them.
Not one of the LOG communes in the
populous province of Porto Maurizio
escaped injury. The villages built on
terraces on the sides of hills are al
most all destroyed. The distress ;s
great everywhere.
The earthquake was strongly felt at
sea. Off Genoa it woke sailors from
their sleep. At Turin a portion of the
ceiling of Santa Teresa Church fell up
on the worshipers, but none were
killed. In many streets traffic was
stopped as houses were rendered liable
to fall At Castellaro church col
lapsed, killing many persons. The
transport Roma has left Genoa to
take on board 800 prisoners confined
in the Oneglia prison, which is expect
ed to collapse. Parties of soldiers
have been sent to the villages visited
by the earthquake to assist in burying
the dead. King Humbert desired to
proceed to Genoa but was dissuaded
therefrom. The Italian Soothsayer,
an almanac, predicted earthquake
shocks between the 18th and 23d OF
February.